Desperate Play by Barbara Freethy

Author:Barbara Freethy [Freethy, Barbara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romantic Suspense
Publisher: Fog City Publishing
Published: 2018-06-13T04:00:00+00:00

Fifteen

She was right. Wyatt looked deliciously sexy after he'd showered and put on gray slacks and a light-blue dress shirt. His hair was thick and wavy, his cheeks freshly shaven, and he smelled like musk and man, and it was all Avery could do not to throw herself into his arms and find that better time right now.

Despite the immediate guilty feeling that followed, a part of her wondered why they should wait?

Life was ridiculously short. Noelle had been eating cotton candy one minute and dying of a stab wound the next.

Maybe she should start living like there might not be a tomorrow, especially in view of how much danger she was currently in.

But there was no time to act on her reckless thoughts. They would be late for dinner and this dinner was turning out to be about more than her dad's fifty-sixth birthday. Still, she couldn't help smiling under Wyatt's appreciative gaze. "What?" she asked, sensing he wanted to say something, or maybe she just wanted him to say it.

"You look beautiful, Avery."

She smoothed down the sides of her short, clingy black dress, glad she'd put on high heels and had a chance to pull herself together. Wyatt had seen her at her worst so far. This might not be her best, but it was quite an improvement. She'd left her hair down, put on some makeup, even spritzed herself with some perfume, and Wyatt's words made her feel even better about herself. "Thanks. You clean up well, too."

His eyes sparkled with warm humor. "Glad you think so."

She really did, and a gnawing hunger in her gut had nothing to do with the fact that she hadn't eaten in hours. It was all about this man who had appeared out of nowhere and had somehow become her constant companion. But they were in dangerous territory, alone in this hotel room, and she couldn't handle any more danger, no matter how sexy it might be.

"We should go," she said. "Whitney hates when people are late. Not that she's ever on time."

"One-way street, huh?"

"That's Whitney." She put a silky wrap around her shoulders that would do little to keep her warm, but the only jacket she had in her suitcase had Noelle's blood on it, and that wasn't going to work.

Within minutes, they were in the car and on their way to her father's house in Calabasas, an upscale suburb north of Los Angeles, on the other side of the Malibu Canyon. He'd purchased the house a few months ago when he and Whitney had moved in together, choosing the location because all the Tremaines had homes in the area and the hillside community offered views of the mountains and the beach.

Opting to avoid the freeways, Wyatt took the northern beach route, heading up the Pacific Coast Highway, turning off just past Malibu to drive through the Santa Monica Mountains to Calabasas.

"I am not looking forward to this," she muttered as Wyatt weaved his way through the unusually heavy traffic. Apparently, a lot of beachgoers had decided to take this route as well.

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